“Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure.– Portuguese proverb

“Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes, in the middle nowhere you find yourself.”– unknown

“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” –Clifton Fadiman

“I did not fully understand the dreaded phrase “terminal illness” until I saw Heathrow for myself.”–Dennis Potter, 197

“If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.”–Unknown

“For the born traveler, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim’s time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.”–Aldous Huxley

“Travel broadens the mind – but you must have the mind.”–G.K. Chesterton

“The adventures that seem the scariest, most difficult and dangerous are usually the ones that you will look back on, smile about, and remember forever.” –Craig Guillot

“The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for.”–Louis L’Amou

“The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.”–William Least Heat Moon

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” –Proust

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”–Jawahar Lal Nehru

“Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body. But rather, to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming….”Wow, what a ride!””–Harvie Edward Ward

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”–Mark Twain